We used a publicly available dataset Available at http://andrewjanowczyk.com/wp-static/IDC_regular_ps50_idx5.zip that was first introduced by Cruz-Roa et al. [1]} for Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC) identification. The histopathological images of the dataset were not released in their original format but in RGB patches of 50x50 pixels. The zoom factor was 2.5x (4μm/pixel). The dataset contained 277,525 patches from 279 subjects. The patches were comprised of 28.39% invasive ductal carcinoma cells, while the remaining patches consisted of healthy tissue or non-invasive ductal carcinoma (see Figure REF ).
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